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Summary

Software-based online payment system

Description

Bitcoin Unlimited is an implementation of a full Bitcoin Core node. By running it, you express an interest to the Bitcoin network to make specific changes to the Bitcoin protocol, including changes to Bitcoin’s blockchain blocksize.

The Bitcoin Unlimited client is not a competitive block scaling proposal like BIP-101, BIP-102, etc. Instead it tracks consensus. This means that it tracks the blockchain that the hash power majority follows, irrespective of blocksize, and signals its ability to accept larger blocks via protocol and block versioning fields.

If you support an increase in the blocksize limit by any means – or just support Bitcoin conflict resolution as originally envisioned by its founder – consider running a Bitcoin Unlimited client.

Disk requirements

Blockchain is slowly downloaded only when Bitcoin Unlimited is running and connected to network

Blockchain default location is %AppData%\Bitcoin\data

Security

This program should only be installed on a trusted machine.

By default, upon first execution Bitcoin Unlimited creates an unencrypted wallet file at %AppData%\Bitcoin\wallet.dat

Wallet.dat stores all your private keys for public Bitcoin addresses. If this file is not encrypted, anyone with access to the file may withdraw funds from addresses stored in the file. For this reason, you should encrypt the file as soon as possible with Bitcoin Unlimited.

After encrypting wallet.dat, back up wallet.dat to at least one other storage medium.